Re: Question about HTML abbr and acronym tags

Barry Rader wrote:
> Say for example MIA we have an MIA named Mia and we are discussing her.

Mia would not be marked-up, but MIA would, and like David said, modern 
screenreaders either know how to pronounce it or they can be taught.

But I agree that _two_ elements for the same thing is confusing, in 
particular because the definition of an acronym apparently varies in 
different languages. At least it doesn't describe what I understand to 
be an acronym in German. Anyway as far as I remember XHTML 2.0 proposes 
only one element for the future, so death to ACRONYM, long live ABBR 
(plus explanations in brackets in some cases)!

Cheers,
   Martin

Received on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:04:53 UTC